Re: oops/warning report for the week of November 26, 2008

[Arjan van de Ven]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Rank 8: mtrr_trim_uncached_memory (warning)
> > 	Reported 227 times (619 total reports)
> > 	There is a high number of machines where our MTRR checks 
> > 	trigger. I suspect we are too picky in accepting the MTRR 
> > 	configuration.
>
> the warning here means: "the BIOS messed up but we fixed it up for 
> you just fine".

I don't believe that right now.
we see so many of these, including many "there's no MTRRs at all",
that I am seriously suspecting that our code is just incorrect somehow
and triggering too much.

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